To Work Oneself out of Poverty: The Dutch Experience 1989–96

Jolanda Van Leeuwen and Jeroen Pannekoek

Review of Income and Wealth, 2002, vol. 48, issue 1, 127-140

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of finding work by one of the household members on the probability of escaping from poverty in the Netherlands. For households with non‐active heads, finding work by the head of the household is the most important (investigated) event connected with exiting poverty, nearly a third of all poverty endings. However, finding a job by the head of the household does not guarantee one leaving poverty. In practice, the success rate yields 25 percent. A multivariate analysis shows that finding a job by the head of the household increases the chance of leaving poverty with 22 percent points. So, some exits from poverty are a result of other factors or are due to selectivity of the job‐finders. This difference is much larger when partners or (adult) children find jobs.

Date: 2002
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